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- 1964 October 22 (Creation)
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1 page(s); Xerox copy of a typed signed letter with holograph annotations.
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Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a writer and Trappist monk at Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky. His writings include such classics as The Seven Storey Mountain, New Seeds of Contemplation, and Zen and the Birds of Appetite. Merton is the author of more than seventy books that include poetry, personal journals, collections of letters, social criticism, and writings on peace, justice, and ecumenism.
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First lines: "Thanks for your note of yesterday. I sent the CW Letters and some other things, but have no more"... Contents index: no more copies of «Peace in the Post-Christian Era» to reproduce / talk on Loretto for the afternoon / will try to come up with an article for «Jesuit Missions» after finishing overdue article for «Holiday».
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- anglų
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Copy from Cornell University Department of Rare Books.